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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools
   Students read a work of realistic fiction about bullying and gain understanding through writing, Readers Theatre, and discussion.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
   After exploring Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, students create their own audio dramatization of a text they have read.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Campaigning for Fair Use: Public Service Announcements on Copyright Awareness
   Students explore a range of resources on fair use and copyright then design their own audio public service announcements (PSAs), to be broadcast over the school's public address system.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project
   In this unit, students become active archivists, gathering photos, artifacts, and stories for a museum exhibit that highlights one decade in their school's history.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate over Downloading Music
   This lesson takes advantage of students' interest in music and audio sharing. Students investigate multiple perspectives in the music downloading debate and develop a persuasive argument for a classroom debate.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
   Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.
   
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Developing Story Structure With Paper-Bag Skits
   Lights, camera, action, and a bit of mystery! In this lesson, students use mystery props in a skit bag to create and perform in short, impromptu skits.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
   Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make text–self–world connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.
   
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
   Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.
   
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Expository Escapade—Detective's Handbook
    Students create a Detective's Handbook based on a detective mystery they have read. The handbooks include expository and descriptive writing, as well as a letter.
    

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